“It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.”

“The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.”

“how much choice the animals technically had was far less important than how much choice they felt they had”

“She could sense it very clearly: for me, no less than for her, the past counted far more than the present, remembering something far more than possessing it. Compared to memory, every possession can only ever seem disappointing, banal, inadequate ... She understood me so well! My anxiety that the present 'immediately' turned into the past so that I could love it and dream about it at leisure was just like hers, was identical. It was 'our' vice, this: to go forwards with our heads forever turned back.”

“The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.”

“You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.”